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It Wasn’t Your Connection – Twitter Goes Down for an Hour

Was there a time on Thursday where you picked up your phone with the intention of getting your Twitter fix and didn’t get anything but a blue screen and a message that something was wrong? It wasn’t your connection. It wasn’t the fault of your phone, computer, or other device. It was the social media site itself. Twitter went down for nearly an hour on Thursday. The big disruption wasn’t even due to a hack: it was just an “internal configuration change.” Twitter Goes Down There’s no denying that you’re dealing with a social media… Read more

Nomad offers a free Lightning cable if you plant trees in the Amazon

NEWS – No one ever has enough Lighting cables, and no one who isn’t a land developer hates trees. What if you could plant trees and be given a free cable for your trouble? Nomad is offering exactly that in their Free Cable for the Planet program. Donate at least $5 to plant 5 trees in the Amazon, and they will send ya 1.5 meter Lightning cable, with or without end-caps. You do have to pay for shipping, but when’s the last time you bought a quality third-partly Lightning cable for under $10?

Hat tip to imore.com for their reporting of this news.

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Nomad offers a free Lightning cable if you plant trees in the Amazon originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on July 11, 2019 at 10:00 am.

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Relive all your web frustrations with User Inyerface

NEWS – Have you ever visited a frustrating website? You know what I mean – the one where the buttons don’t work, hint characters don’t clear from text boxes, tab order doesn’t work and so on? The folks at Bagaar have built a shrine to poor web design with their User Inyerface web page.

Once you figure out how to begin, the main page opens with the following banner:

Of course, the wording is confusing and the buttons, or more correctly, button and non-highlighted text, are the opposite of what you’d expect. After you accept those terms, you get the following severely messed-up user interface.

There are fun elements all over the screen. There are missing buttons, cursors that don’t change, useless distractions and so on. I won’t detail them for you and spoil the fun, but suffice it to say that the folks at Bagaar went above and beyond to pay homage to all the frustrations I have ever seen in web design, Especially ~~frustrating~~ fun is the pop-up reminding you that time is ticking!

Be sure to explore all the pages as there are fun elements on every page. Enjoy!

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Relive all your web frustrations with User Inyerface originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on July 11, 2019 at 8:00 am.

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New Malware, Agent Smith, Infected as Many as 25 Million Androids

At some point we seem to have become immune to the shock of large catastrophic events happening to our phone and devices. Sometimes it barely even registers as news. This happens to be one of the times where it is registering as news but perhaps not as much as it should. A new malware, Agent Smith, has infected as many as 25 million Android devices, replacing installed apps with malicious versions of the same software without the user even knowing. Agent Smith Poses as Installed Software Security firm Check Point named the malware Agent Smith… Read more

Mobvoi announces new TicWatch Pro 4G/LTE

NEWS – Supported by Verizon, Mobvio’s newly updated TicWatch Pro now comes in a 4G LTE version that is jam-packed with all the smartphone features you want and need, like GPS, NFC for Google payments from your wrist, built-in heart rate monitor, and activity tracking. It’s also IP68+ rated so you can wear it while swimming, and it has 30 days of battery life. No, you didn’t read that wrong, I said 30 days of battery life per charge!

This new 4G version of the TicWatch Pro uses the same dual layered-screen technology as the TicWatch Pro that I reviewed last year. The watch has two displays. When the battery gets low, it automatically switches from Smart Mode which uses the AMOLED display to Essential Mode which uses the mono LCD. If you have a mixed use of both Smart Mode and Essential Mode, the watch battery will last up to 5 days per charge, but using the watch only in Essential Mode will give you 30 days of use.

The TicWatch Pro is powered by Wear OS by Google and also features Number Sharing and Cloud Synchronization to keep you connected to important messages from your smartphone, without actually tethering your smartphone. This new Wear OS standalone smartwatch can actually replace your smartphone because you can make calls right from your wrist using this watch.

Available starting today on Amazon and on Mobvoi’s brand website mobvoi.com, the TicWatch Pro 4G/LTE is priced $299.

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Mobvoi announces new TicWatch Pro 4G/LTE originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on July 10, 2019 at 11:00 am.

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